Public Address | Cafe | Cracker: Is there a Sub in the City? https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Craig Ranapia https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=52603#post52603 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=52603#post52603 Fri, 30 May 2008 09:09:25 +1200 Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=52569#post52569 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=52569#post52569 And a year later to the day, she's gone.

Click for Herald report and final photo identity. Yea verily, displaying all the class you associate with the modern cosmopolite...

]]> Thu, 29 May 2008 16:20:49 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19278#post19278 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19278#post19278 If she is talking about her actual experiences then there's something original in that. If not, why not, I'd want to know.

"he really confusing part about this column is that she states that people in Auckland don't date- so what's it about?"

Whatever they do instead, I hope. Which…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 17:42:59 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19268#post19268 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19268#post19268

Was she? Good on her. Was she equally upfront about running out of ideas and having to recycle old stories?

Can't remember – I can only recall her writing about some married guy with a red tie that she was strumping. I guess she kept him anonymous.

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 15:57:48 +1200 Beatrix https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19266#post19266 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19266#post19266 Tue, 29 May 2007 15:51:41 +1200 David Ritchie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19263#post19263 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19263#post19263

she was at least upfront that the anonymous column was hers

Was she? Good on her. Was she equally upfront about running out of ideas and having to recycle old stories?

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 15:37:15 +1200 dc_red https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19261#post19261 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19261#post19261 Don said:

Last time I looked he seemed to be regurgitating press releases for Families First. Would the Herald have paid for that "work" or does it count as an "Advertising Feature"? I suppose that approach is standard MO for some jornos but for an op-ed who is supposed to…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 15:27:49 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19260#post19260 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19260#post19260

I'm not quite prepared to write off the blonde yet. The topic itself (local dating) is inherently interesting.

This morning I was thinking about what would make an interesting subject for a blog at the Herald, if dating tales didn't.

I realised that I'd be far more interested in an…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 14:59:12 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19257#post19257 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19257#post19257

I search almost everything using Google. It seems to be better than nearly all site-specific search, not to mention faster.

The major advantage of the Herald's site search is being able to sort results by date. I've just tried combining the site: search feature in Google with Google Experimental's new…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 14:49:13 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19256#post19256 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19256#post19256 Tue, 29 May 2007 14:44:19 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19254#post19254 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19254#post19254

For all his faults, even Garth George can string a few paragraphs together.

Does he? Last time I looked he seemed to be regurgitating press releases for Families First. Would the Herald have paid for that "work" or does it count as an "Advertising Feature"? I suppose that approach is…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 14:28:20 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19253#post19253 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19253#post19253 Tue, 29 May 2007 14:28:19 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19252#post19252 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19252#post19252 Tue, 29 May 2007 14:27:33 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19251#post19251 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19251#post19251 The difference was follow up, Damian. But you're right, we don't get to define what a blog is. And it's too early to say if the Blonde isn't going to follow anything up. Perhaps she's still waiting for the first intelligent response.

More accurate would be to say that it's…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 14:26:45 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19249#post19249 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19249#post19249 I don't know about that. Was publicaddress not a blog until The System was added? We never had comments.

At present there are moderated' comments on the Herald's site, moderated in the sense that they have to be submitted and approved.

It doesn't have any hyperlinks though, that makes me…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 13:26:21 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19247#post19247 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19247#post19247 Tue, 29 May 2007 13:10:53 +1200 Neil Graham https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19244#post19244 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19244#post19244 Is it really a blog? I always thought an integral part of blogs as offering and implied invitation to engage in debate. Does the Author reply to comments or just she just let the mortals muse upon her sermon from the mount.

It may just be that I move in…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 12:37:14 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19242#post19242 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19242#post19242

I can't even recall what it [The Dominion's similar column from the late '90s] was called anymore.

Neither do I, although I remember it was written under a pseudonym which would have been all well and good had it not been for the same writer — writing under her own…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 12:34:48 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19241#post19241 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19241#post19241 I guess they don't know until they try. You're right about the amateurism, my point was really that their other opinion columnists have set the bar so low even this doesn't seem too bad to me.

By inherently interesting I meant talking about dating has wide appeal. But any particular…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 12:33:16 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19240#post19240 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19240#post19240

see Damian at a Strip Club here and here

Wow, who'd have thought he had legs like that!?

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 12:32:10 +1200 Nobody Important https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19238#post19238 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19238#post19238

I wouldn't say I'm a regular

see Damian at a Strip Club here and here

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 11:58:55 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19236#post19236 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19236#post19236 I don't know if the topic is inherently interesting. I think some of the Blonde's posts so far show that even a potentially interesting topic can be rendered anything but, if it's poorly written or not sufficiently developed.

My interest (and hence my post) isn't so much on the meat…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 11:47:48 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19229#post19229 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19229#post19229 A couple of examples...but yes, it would make Lord of the Flies look like Club Med if the Herald was the only paper on my island.

I'm not quite prepared to write off the blonde yet. The topic itself (local dating) is inherently interesting. If you're not interested, why write…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 11:18:27 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19221#post19221 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19221#post19221 Tue, 29 May 2007 10:46:08 +1200 BenWilson https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19220#post19220 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19220#post19220 Tue, 29 May 2007 10:11:06 +1200 David Ritchie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19219#post19219 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19219#post19219

I can't even recall what it [The Dominion's similar column from the late '90s] was called anymore.

Neither do I, although I remember it was written under a pseudonym which would have been all well and good had it not been for the same writer — writing under her own…

]]> Tue, 29 May 2007 10:04:29 +1200 Lea Barker https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19207#post19207 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19207#post19207 Tue, 29 May 2007 05:04:45 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19201#post19201 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19201#post19201 Don't worry, no smugness on the search front from this quarter.

I can, however, recommend various flavours of Lucene, an open source search engine, as a reasonable cure all for searching unstructured content.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 22:55:25 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19196#post19196 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19196#post19196

I'd still give anything to have the Herald's search functionality on certain other NZ media sites I daren't mention by name...

Damian, would that "anything" include, like, money?

Heh. It's surprising how hard site search is to do well. The Guardian sucked at it for ages (and for all I…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 18:45:15 +1200 Don Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19194#post19194 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19194#post19194

'd still give anything to have the Herald's search functionality on certain other NZ media sites I daren't mention by name...

Damian, would that "anything" include, like, money?

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 18:37:07 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19190#post19190 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19190#post19190

THIS JUST IN ...
Seeing as we're on the Herald ...
Premium Content is dead

I don't think even the Herald would've tried to define Blonde in the Bar as "premium content".

I'd still give anything to have the Herald's search functionality on certain other NZ media sites I daren't…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 17:01:29 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19186#post19186 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19186#post19186 "Or, on mature reflection, women tell him they're unavailable because he's a dickhead, and he assumes they're lesbians."

Heh. That reminds me of an old (male) flatmate.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 16:25:31 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19185#post19185 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19185#post19185

My guess is wherever Adam goes, women tell him they're unavailable because they're lesbians.

Or, on mature reflection, women tell him they're unavailable because he's a dickhead, and he assumes they're lesbians.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 16:17:03 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19183#post19183 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19183#post19183 THIS JUST IN ...

Seeing as we're on the Herald ...

Premium Content is dead

Yeah, I know it's only been there in name for months now, but presumably they've finally found a way to break it to Tony O'Reilly that the "experiment" is over.

Emails are going out now…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 15:59:19 +1200 Kyle Matthews https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19181#post19181 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19181#post19181 Some males (and presumably some females) have unusual ideas about lesbians. One chap was talking to me the other day, before we participated in a sporting fixture, about how there were 'too many lesbian cock fags in New Zealand'.

Apart from the fact that he was obviously a teeny bit…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 15:54:33 +1200 andrew llewellyn https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19176#post19176 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19176#post19176

I have to know where Adam is spending his nights out,

My guess is wherever Adam goes, women tell him they're unavailable because they're lesbians.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 15:39:55 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19174#post19174 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19174#post19174

My favourite is from "Adam", who reckons the latest column, "highlights what is wrong with our society, too many lesbians."

I have to know where Adam is spending his nights out, because this has SO not been my experience.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 15:02:07 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19171#post19171 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19171#post19171

I don't know what's worse, the original content or the reader feedback.

Most of the reader feedback seems to be coming from men.

My favourite is from "Adam", who reckons the latest column, "highlights what is wrong with our society, too many lesbians."

Too many lesbians?!

See, Candace Bushnell and…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 14:45:37 +1200 Damian Christie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19169#post19169 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19169#post19169 Mon, 28 May 2007 14:14:11 +1200 Nobody Important https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19167#post19167 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19167#post19167 well, if anyone wants the real thing

or spending my spare time in seedy strip clubs.

heh heh, cunning use of strikethru to imply you're a bit of a bad boy Damian! So do you actually fequent them regularly, or do you have no spare time?

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 13:59:59 +1200 Roho https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19166#post19166 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19166#post19166 Mon, 28 May 2007 13:51:44 +1200 Robyn Gallagher https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19163#post19163 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19163#post19163 I find it hard enough coming up with interesting, original stuff to write on my blog and I don't have the pressure of having to write something every day and being restricted to a narrow subject.

Technically speaking, I'm a single gal living in the city with a groovy media…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 13:33:02 +1200 DPF https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19160#post19160 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19160#post19160 The Dominon used to have such a column but weekly not daily. They used to joke the columnists were hired for their attractiveness and that after they kept exposing the paper to defamation, the column was finally dropped.

I can't even recall what it was called anymore.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 12:54:44 +1200 3410 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19159#post19159 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19159#post19159 I suspect that someone at the Herald just wanted a hot blonde face on the front page, and then decided some post hoc reason for it.

It would also appear that [subs] are voicing their disquiet by failing to correct basic typos in 'Blonde at the Bar' copy.

How can…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 12:51:09 +1200 dc_red https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19156#post19156 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19156#post19156 my first reaction too. At least Sydney has that almost-metropolitan-enough-to-justify-this-type-of-writing feel. ]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 12:35:37 +1200 Che Tibby https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19155#post19155 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19155#post19155 i'm breaking my self-imposed silence to say,

been done

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 12:30:53 +1200 Grant McDougall https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19152#post19152 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19152#post19152 I suspect that this column / blog will go down like a cup o f cold sick with Herald readers. (Not that hot sick is any nicer, but anyway...).

Hunkin's probably a nice enough individual and an ok journo. But the type of inane twaddle in such blogs comes into…

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 12:18:55 +1200 Joanna https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19148#post19148 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19148#post19148 Mon, 28 May 2007 12:03:16 +1200 John Fouhy https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19146#post19146 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19146#post19146 Mon, 28 May 2007 11:52:58 +1200 Rich of Observationz https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19139#post19139 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19139#post19139 Personally, I think they should have got an aging male journalist to write the blog pseudonymously. Garth George perhaps?

When the Indy started running "Bridget Jones Diary" it was anonymous rather than attributed to Helen Fielding and many people thought it was true not fiction.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 11:31:52 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19138#post19138 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/cracker-is-there-a-sub-in-the-city/?p=19138#post19138 Discussion from blog post.

]]> Mon, 28 May 2007 11:31:52 +1200